Stephen Colbert offers his take on white people’s fears of black people

In his own inimitable way, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert offered his take on white people’s irrational fears of black people — particularly black men.

Replaying video from several Fox TV shows, Colbert noted that Fox personalities Bill O’Reilly, Bernie Goldberg and Chris Wallace had all offered statistics indicating that African Americans are more likely to commit crimes (murders, in particular) than Hispanics or non-Hispanic whites.

He then addressed the fearmongering with his own logic, noting that less than one one-thousandth of one percent of African Americans are convicted of murder. That means, Colbert said, that white people can be
“reasonably be scared of” .009 percent of black people. He goes on to dissect Fox-inspired talk of our “colorblind” society.